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Jimmycrackcrack

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  • What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective?

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  • I've seen a lot of various 3 word combos mostly revolving around shit and shit adjacent coloured eyeware and that was my thought as well but one thing I think everyone's missed is that it you want to try and stick to that template so it's recognisable as the antonym for the phrase but still change enough of it to be clever, we should change tinted as well and I think "tainted" is perfect since it sounds almost the same and has a similar meaning in context but still adds it's own negative connotations.

    "Shit tainted glasses" is the chef's kiss in my mind. Unless anyone's got something that means the same or almost the same as glasses but also adds additional negative overtones.

  • Online Order Tracking Numbers Linked to 3rd Party Site Trackers

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  • I had this happen once and I had a hell of a time trying to find a way around their bullshit. I finally just emailed them and asked for a real tracking number not a link and they actually obliged.

  • captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input

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  • Kinda... Slightly more helpful, but almost as vague. I'm advising against opting for solutions that are technically correct but would be more difficult for the average person to get right most of the time.

    The OP's CAPTCHA as a case in point, it's frustrating for them because they're ostensibly asked to enter the characters that they see but there are several and the length of the string of characters is not known and some characters are hard to read and depending on how you interpret it you could be being asked to enter all these characters or you could look at them and say there's a background set and a foreground set in which case, which one is the correct one? That's at least 3 different ways to do it and that's assuming that what appears to us a representation of depth is indeed intended to be the basis of separation for 2 sets of characters and not some other arbitrary categorisation or no categorisation. Sounds complicated and ambiguous. Except, it's much harder to read the background set, and the idea that there would even be some other way of categorising, if it occurs to anyone at all would be impossible to work out since if it's there, it's not discernible. The easiest way is to just read the letters that aren't partially covered up and also smaller than the more obvious, easier to read, not occluded characters and disregard the ones behind it. What's easiest to do also most of the time turns out to have been the hidden instruction for what you were meant to do.

    There's no explicit instruction to do this, it's wishy washy and hard to abstract for different CAPTCHAs which is why this advice doesn't look a whole lot better than "just guess right" but in a way that's kind of part of why they still have some effectiveness, they're unspoken rules that humans Intuit. Where some of us, like me before kinda "getting it", go wrong, is in overthinking and over analysing it. "but what if they mean this? I mean technically it could..." If you're thinking like that, odds are you're barking up the wrong tree and the solution is way less sophisticated.

  • captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input

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  • As others have pointed out, it's probably the foreground characters. They're easier to read and less ambiguous from occlusion by other characters.

    In general I find you can resolve technical ambiguities or possible loopholes to instructions in these things by asking yourself "what would most people do, especially if not really thinking about it much?" That's particularly helpful for situations where you have to select all the tiles with x object in them. Often you'll see that technically there's a little bit of the object in squares other than the most obvious ones that everyone would have selected and you ask yourself "does that count? Technically a little bit of it's in this square" but if you just pretend you didn't notice that and only go for the most dead obvious squares you end up passing. Once I realised this the number of times I failed CAPTCHAs significantly reduced. For some reason the only ones that continued to be a problem were the click a checkbox ones that seemingly analyse your mouse movement because somehow I apparently move like a robot.

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    will i be judged or will people think i'm cool if i learn to talk "oldtimey"?

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  • Other than in some very niche and select circumstances that I honestly can't really think of, nobody is going to think it's cool. However if you like it and want to do it then that's really more important than if others will think it's cool. However, I should add some caveats to that.

    In some environments, if you're young than school especially, can be very cruel and very conformist. In those sorts of environments, being "weird" can seriously make you miserable because you'll be ostracised and while being authentic and true to yourself is important you'll need to decide how important this specifically is to you, because if it's not that important then in a context like school I'd say don't risk it.

    However if you want to try it out sometimes around friends who already like you then why not? Just try to keep an eye on people's reactions and see if they start to get tired of it or roll their eyes or visibly cringe, that's a sign you're doing it too much and it's getting irritating. Definitely don't change your entire speech pattern to whatever you decide equates to "old timey", all the time in every conversation with everyone, it won't land well.

  • Every last one of these questions is terrible

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  • Got him! Send in the seals.

  • Why didn't the Democrats release the Epstein client list?

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  • It's likely heavily reinforced by your voting system but 2 party systems aren't unique to that system, even in theoretically better voting systems you frequently end up with very similar results. Australia as a case in point. That said if current electoral trends continue we could be seeing the end of that here and at least our system theoretically allows that to happen.

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    What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?

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  • There's stuff on there I didn't download... Hundreds of gigs. Eek.

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • Surprised it hasn't been superseded meaningfully? Or surprised people are still using it instead of another better tech?

  • My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased.

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  • That's really not fair or helpful to the poor kid. It may be nonsense but it's very real and has a very real impact on his life. Those little monsters truly will go out of their way to make him miserable and sad as it may be keeping a low profile and reducing the number of things they can pick on can be a way not to be targeted. The idea that of telling him he "should be better than that" is just adding to the burden he's already carrying of being forced to coexist with those little sociopaths. Is it somehow his fault?

  • Do you use Javascript bookmarklets? Which ones do you find useful? And are there similar things that would be useful to know of?

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  • I've been using this guy's one for years. It's called stretch video

    https://gist.github.com/arpruss/74abc1bc95ae08e543b9b74f15a23b07

    It's not often I have to use it but if you ever watch something online where the uploader has messed up the aspect ratio you can just fix it just like that, no need to download and reencode or anything I love it.

  • Barbie the what?!

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  • Right but I mean, the more classic examples of professions to be made in to doll form tend to more easily liken themselves to simplistic representations that you can convey to children as a toy and have them roughly understand and imagine doing. A doctor, an army guy, maybe a mechanic, a police officer, a scientist they're all pretty visual, they have uniforms or attire strongly associated with the work itself and plenty of props to package with them for the kid to interact with to emulate doing that job. The therapist kinda wears just whatever and their job primarily involves talking so it just doesn't seem an obvious choice for a doll for children's entertainment at all.

  • Barbie the what?!

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  • So I know the joke with spelling but also, Barbie therapist!? WTF? How does that work as a play toy? The concepts seem like they'd be so confusing and boring for a child. I gather it was to send a "you can be anything when you grow up" message, but it'd be about as exciting as a toy as a Barbie accountant. That's just weird.

  • What is the biggest scam you've fallen for?

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  • No shade on you man, you were young, just wondering if any who isn't being scammed ever chooses to use that service or of it's basically dedicated entirely to facilitating scams.

  • What is the biggest scam you've fallen for?

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  • Ah I see my confusion now

    His "water fuel cell" was later examined by three expert witnesses in court who found that there "was nothing revolutionary about the cell at all and that it was simply using conventional electrolysis."

    I initially took it to mean they'd examined the fuel cell in the vehicle but the way that's written it's not necessarily the case so it was probably a separate demo prototype to the buggy.

  • What is the biggest scam you've fallen for?

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  • Yeh, I can send money from bank to bank internationally already. The banks use the SWIFT system.

  • What is the biggest scam you've fallen for?

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  • Haha I never knew there was a real person attached to that myth. I was hearing about that as a big conspiracy theory from teachers when I was kid all the way here in Australia.

    That's interesting he did produce an actual machine that could move though. I was reading the Wikipedia about him and they don't go in to that exactly. They point out that his design and vehicle were just using conventional electrolysis and thus couldn't work as claimed, but it still moved. What was the catch then? It uses a battery to do the electrolysis, does it just use up all the battery to inefficienly split out the hydrogen using more energy than gained from the hydrogen in the process? Making it a really weird electric car?

  • What is the biggest scam you've fallen for?

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  • Is Western Union used for anything other than scams? What's it for legitimately? Can't you just send money via your bank?

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    What holiday destination is the most concerning?

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  • You're unsurprisingly getting a lot of replies along these lines, taking issue with this strange and unfounded blanket statement about an entire country and you're replying back to them with similar riffs on the theme that those commenters are being disingenuous and masking a kind of widely known understanding that the reason people visit there is for the sex industry.

    I have to say I think you might have gotten the wrong idea there. There's a kernel of truth to it in that yes, it is known to be a place where sex tourism occurs so you could say it was famous for it, but I also don't think that that's like, their thing. Other commenters have tried to persuade you of this by pointing out compelling reasons one might go there other than for sex tourism but you seem unwilling to believe them because of this idea you've latched on to that they're being deliberately naive. I think it might help just to point out that, at least amongst Australians, this is a very mainstream holiday destination, like it's not a place where anyone would raise their eyebrows to hear you were going there. You could happily discuss this at any workplace and say you're going to Thailand for a holiday and you'd probably get a lot people saying how much they love the place and asking which part you're going to. I'd be surprised to learn if somehow all or even most of these people, sometimes families with children, had all gone there for a shag and also that this practice was so widely known that it was somehow a reasonable, immediate assumption to make about why they'd chosen Thailand and yet they also decided to broadcast this intention to everyone they know.

    While I don't know the stats, I would guess that a lot of the world's sex tourism probably occurs there, so I imagine that's where you got the idea that that's THE reason to go there but it's also just a place where a lot of tourism generally happens.